The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-05-27
Bills Signed BY Governor Beaver.

signed by Governor Beaver since the
adjournment of the Legislature and
have therefore become laws: An act
to punish false pretensers In obtaining
registration Of cattle and other animals
and to punish giving false pedigrees
to provide civil rights for all people re
gsrdless Of race or color amending the
act regulating the admission of sttor-
neys and counsellors al law to practice
10 the several courts of the commou-
wealth; to enable managers of work
houses to purchase additional land for
agricultural or other purposes to give
preference of appointment or employ
meDt to honorably discharged soldiers,
sailors and marines, who fought for the
Union cause 10 the late war suthoriz-
ing the issuing of execution upon judg
ments for the purpose of selling per-
sonsl property of the debtor after five
years from the entry of such judgment
without previous writ Of scire facids
to revive the same extending the au-
thority and jurisdiction of Justices of
the peace to the several burgesses of
this commonwealth to provide for the
care and preservation Of the monuments
marking the boundary lines of this
commonwealth; relating to cost and
the manner of computing mileage in
certain cases; supplement TO an act
providing for the selection of site and
erection of state hospital for injured
persons of the anthracite coal regions,
in the counties of Schuylkill, Carbon,
Dauphin, Northumberland and Colum-
bia, etc. providing for the payment of
costs in criminal cases by the proper
county providing for night watch
man for the state library; to extend
the minimum school term to six months;
authorizing the courts of quarter
sessions to make orders about the pay
ment of costs in road cases regarding
the mutilating of books, maps, station
cry, &c. to regulate the employment
of labor, requiring two weeks notice
of intended abandonment of work TO
be given the employer, who is also
oblige to give similar notice of in
tended discharge; providing for the
semi-monthly payment of wage-work-
ers; to repeal the Lenox road law, in
Susquehanna, before this legislature
for fifty years repeating the act in
creasing the pay of sheriffs and jailors
of Lebanon county repeating the act
relating to road bridges hereafter to be
constructed on the Juniata and Susque-
hanna rivers enlarging the competency
of witnesses repeating act to authorize
the court OF common pleas of Luzeroe
county to appoint auditors in certain
cases repeating the section Of the act
TO provide for the erecting of pounds,
doing away with the old fence require
ment; empowering cities to take and
hold donations of money, books, real
or personal property for the purpose of
free libraries and authorizing appro-
priations authorizing the binding Of
any orphan to any city to be made by
mother, guardian, or next friend; for
the protection of German carp in pub
lie lakes or streams an ending the
game law so as to prohibit the KILN ng
of quail or Virginia partridge between
December Is and October Is, provid-
| ing q penalty of ten dollars for every
violation of the act to prevent the ad-
liberation of candy or confectionery 4;
making the carrying on Of the business
of detectives without license a misde-
meanor authorizing the trustees, treas
urer or other proper officers of any
church, congregation, presbytery or
other church organization to abandon
burying grounds aud sell the same in
fee clear of all restrictions appropri
sting the tax on dogs to the support of
public Libraries in boroughs; making
the breaking into cars felony secur-
ing to laborers the benefit of the ex-
emption laws and to prevent assign
ment of claims for the purpose of Sc
curing their collection against laborers
outside the state; to provide for the
institution of proceedings in equity by
process of foreign attachment au-
thorizing marriage license to be applied
for before justices of the peace and
aldermen authorizing county treasur-
ers 10 charge and deduct commissions
from school, road and all other munich
pal taxes collected and paid over by
them to the proper authorities provid-
ing punishment for persons stealing
lumber on banks of rivers and streams
to authorize an appeal from the assess
ment of the amount TO be paid by per-
sons desirous of using private road /;
to authorize certain foreign corpora
tions to purchase certain real estate at
judicial sales, and to hold and convey
the same under certain conditions reg
alating the method of the choice of di-
rectors iu certain corporations of the
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